Can I just share my excitement here?

An event, such as meeting someone you admire like Adam, makes the Broadway experience all the more special.

Very Cool!

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I couldn't speak when I was trying to talk to Sutton, when we were taking the pic to the left... I was flubbing up all my words... Very rare for me to stutter..

Stevos

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I've never met a famous person where I've acted that way... like broke down into tears. I'm surprised I didn't when I met Chita, because she IS my Fosse idol after all. Instead, I just jumped up and down and told her I loved her. LOL. To which she responded, "Aren't you just the sweetest?" and gave me a big ole hug! So, yeah. If I didn't cry in front of Chita, I don't think there's anyone I'd cry over meeting. With maybe the exception of Bebe Neuwirth.

And I've had to refrain from licking Gavin Creel every time I've met him... I dunno if that counts?


daisy

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Oh, I'm the girl who started the thread...new name :)

warning, I look pretty unhappy :)


Me and Adam!

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Updated On: 5/29/03 at 09:36 PM

I'm usually very glib, but the first time I met Angela Lansbury I completely lost control of myself. I was in London when she was doing GYPSY and wrote a note to her. I was nonplussed when the stage doorman told me she was expecting me in her dressing room. She calmed me down immediately and we chatted for quite a while before she invited me to join her "for a pint". Yes, gentle readers...I drank beer with Angela Lansbury!

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Updated On: 6/2/03 at 07:32 PM

Well, I will admit that at the first RH preview...I sat, at that time, with my friends and cried when Jarrod came out on stage. After the show, I "calmly" waited for him outside with some flowers and whn he came out, I said these are for you...and where the f*ck have you been. Bway just isn't the same without you! Ahhhh....memories!


Dolly...that is a very cool story! Bwayguy2...do you have any piccies from that Gavin experience???

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sigh...ok ok.

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Yeah, I did. Honestly, I am not sure he would ever understand if I told him that...but when I saw him in Damn Yankees in 1994...my jaw dropped to the ground. I was too shy back then to wait for him after the show, so I had to do it when he finally came back for RH.

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Piglet...

I met your man the other night.. At a Tony party in an almost FULL BEARD

No, he changed the photo to the one of just him. his photo with Sutton is actually on her website.
He is wearing a red stocking cap and glasses.
Sutton Foster Online

To Dollypop,

I know exactly how you felt meeting Angela Lansbury. I met her too, after a performance of Gypsy in Cleveland, Ohio. It was theatre-in-the-round, under this HUGE tent in the middle of summer, 90 degrees at curtain. I had taken flowers that a stage person took from me to keep cool. At intermission it felt like 100 under that tent. We were dressed very cool. Shorts, sandals. I went to the bathroom and the zipper on my shorts broke, so my fly was open during Act 2. (I'll admit, it was a bit cooler.) After the show, lots of people were milling around her trailer holding Gypsy programs and Mame LPs for possible signatures. A man came out of the trailer and called out my name and motioned for me to follow him. So, I and my open fly went inside and was introduced to AL. There she was, standing there smiling at me, thanking me for the flowers. There I was, standing there holding my program in front of my shorts. She was kind, and sweet, and much taller than I had imagined, and quickly put me at ease. (At ease as one can be with one's fly unzipped in front of Angela Lansbury.) But then she said she wanted to sign my program and reached for her autograph pen. I almost fainted. What an evening. Saw Gypsy. Met Angela. Got an autograph. And was red-faced all the way home.

I don't get nervous around "famous people", when it's just one of them around; but I often find myself at events when there are so many of them I get flustered. For example: Liza Minnelli's Christmas Concert, Bernadette Peters' Radio City Concert, and Gypsy opening night. I saw Stephen Sondheim at the Gypsy opening night and I just stared at him. I don't think he saw me thank God!

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